Experienced Boat Accident Lawyer Helping Recreational Boaters

The maritime trial lawyers at Latti Associates LLC have decades of experience helping people injured on the water and the knowledge of maritime law necessary to advise people about their rights and best legal options after a boating accident.

Recreational Boating Accidents: Steps to Protect your Rights and Remedies

In any incident where an injury or death occur on any type of recreational boat, in order to recover for damages for past and future pain and suffering, mental anguish; past and future lost wages and/or physical disfigurement, negligence has to be proven. Below are steps that you should be follow to protect your rights:

• Seek appropriate medical attention
• Contact appropriate law enforcement agency like United States Coast Guard, Harbour Patrol, Environmental Police, State and/or Local Police
• Take photographs of boat and/or area involved
• Determine the owner and operator of the vessel to give notice to them of the injury and to determine whether there is any boat injury insurance liability coverage.
• Obtain as much information as you can regarding the circumstances surrounding the accident to help prove negligence. Was the person driving the boat at fault? Was the person paying attention? Were they drinking? Was there bad weather? Was defective equipment involved? Did an important boat component fail?
• Determine exactly where accident occurred. The applicable laws vary depending on where the accident occurred. Did it take place on a lake, on navigable international waters or on state waters closer to shore? Maritime law and/or state law may apply, depending on where the accident occurred.
• Keep track of all your expenses

The above steps are a beginning to protect your rights after an injury or death on a recreational boat. Matters such as these require the scrutiny of an experienced maritime attorney who can identify the best laws under which to file claims for compensation and can effectively apply those laws to your case.

Examples of Negligent Boating Accidents

Latti Associates LLC has obtained damages for payment for medical bills, pain and suffering, physical disfigurement to past and future wages for those in recreational boating accidents caused by the following examples of negligence:

• Drunk boating
• Defective equipment
• Operator error or operator inexperience
• Excessive speed
• Lack of or improper navigational lights
• Producing a wake in a no-wake zone
• Overcrowding
• Collisions with other vessels
• Collisions with rocks, docks, jetties, piers and sandbars
• Operating in poor and/or rough weather conditions

We have helped clients who have sustained spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries, fractured vertebrae, broken bones, torn ligaments and muscles to amputations from joy riding, tubing, water skiing, wake boarding, sport fishing/recreational fishing to sightseeing.

If the passenger dies from the injuries, the vi’s spouse, children or parents may even have a cause of action for wrongful death, but only an experienced maritime attorney can give true guidance about seeking maximum personal injury compensation under maritime and state wrongful death laws.

Get Legal Representation Focused on Recreational Boating Claims

The maritime trial lawyers at Latti Associates LLC have decades of experience helping people injured on the water and the knowledge of maritime law necessary to advise people about their rights and best legal options after a boating accident. If you have suffered an injury while sailing, operating a motor boat or any other recreational watercraft, contact a boat accident lawyer at our leading national maritime law firm for counsel about your next steps and free legal advice. Call our maritime trial attorneys at (617) 523-1000 to learn how we can help after a boat crash, no matter where in the United States it occurred.